Jackson County Circuit Judge Thomas Wilson sentenced a 21-year-old this morning to 11 1/2 to 20 years in prison for invading a home and beating a woman with a flashlight.

“I don’t see how you deserve any more leniency than you gave her,” Wilson said of the victim, who was 49 at the time of the Nov. 24 home invasion.

“From what I read, she doesn’t want to be left alone. She doesn’t want to leave the doors unlocked.”

Wilson said Gerald Harvel’s sentence will run consecutively to whatever additional time he may have to serve on an earlier prison sentence. He was on parole for second-degree home invasion when he and Brandon Sanford, 21, entered a home in the 6200 block of Brooklyn Road, near Wells Road and the county gravel pit in Napoleon Township.

Harvel was accused of repeatedly hitting the woman occupant over the head with a 12-inch flashlight, dragging her into a bedroom and hitting her three more times, Wilson said.

When police arrived late in the morning, she was drenched in blood and had to have 50 stitches, the judge said. She has since recovered, township police Chief Michael Curry said today.

Harvel and Sanford took several items, including a rifle, and left on foot through an area thick with trees, brush and swamps, township police earlier reported.

The two went west, got a ride from Moon Lake Road, were followed by off-duty township Officer Christopher Desnoyer, and stopped by a state police car on South Street near Hoyer Road.

A hunter helped police find some items taken from the house, the flashlight and a T-shirt, which had been used to wrap one of the men’s hand after he hurt it breaking a window, according to a township police statement.

Harvel pleaded guilty in June to felonious assault and first-degree home invasion.

Sanford pleaded guilty late last month to first-degree home invasion and using a firearm to commit a felony. His sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 7.